My mate only uses 55gr TSX. Is anyone importing them into NZ? Mr Hannon says he has none.
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My mate only uses 55gr TSX. Is anyone importing them into NZ? Mr Hannon says he has none.
gunworks is rapidly running out of just about everything...they have none...or the ttsx or the 50grn version..best I not be wasting what dwindling supply I have left.
I Googled the NZ importer and emailed but like most things in NZ got no reply. Whats new. Pity AliExpress dont make them.
Outdoor Brands Auckland is on Barnes website as NZ agent.
Their replyQuote:
Originally Posted by tetawa
Sorry in this shipment is only TTSX 55g and TSX in 62g
The TSX 55g is still on order with the USA
Move with the times and use the ttsx?
yeah grab the ttsx...they are working ok for me....
This is for my old pig hunting mate whom we now chase reds. He shoots with an X Bolt. The TTSX does not group in his rifle at longer distances. The TSX kills everything from zero to the horizon. He ripped my ears off after I had loaded up the TTSX and they did not perform. He kills for meat not bone. Very demanding about his ammo. His motto is the F TSX works why the F do I need to experiment. Cant argue. He nailed a nice 9pt big fat red a few months back. Guess what he said as I gutted it.Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Why are you gutting my deer?Quote:
Originally Posted by TeRei
TRY taking the tip off a ttsx with ciggy lighter flame....they MAY just preform properly for him if you do as will be fly shit shorter...dont ask me how it works cause Im begiggered if can figgure it out...
As a sideline I saw on the Projectile Warehouse in Australia they post the long range pill for the 243 in Barnes but it is never seen here. Consumer preference?
@TeRei is that the LRX ?
Yes.
I see hannon has got some 45grn ones on trademe..... they should be just as good if not better IF your mate isnt a barrel stretcher.... heck buy them anyway,if he doesnt like terminal preformance ,sell the part box...by then the price will be what you paid for them new.
@TeRei I'm sure your mate won't want to switch as MD has suggested above but I have some you can have if you want to try them
Got 35odd 50gr tsx I won't be using anytime soon of that's any help
Bit light me thinks. My mate is a meat hunter and he nails big stags. Appreciate the offer.
I have shot a 140lb boar with the 50grn ttsx it wasnt quite dead but wasnt going anywhere with smashed up shoulder on far side and major damage on near side... have dropped a few red hinds in bush with them now,all bang flops. if range is short they are awesome.
Gisborne stags at 300m require a bit of smackadooskie. The TSX performs very well. We are out hopefully on 12 November. I nailed some spikers with the 53gr the other night. Cant say enough about the Game Reaper rings. Super rock steady. A sika spiker got a deep furrow across the back of the ears at 230m. No wonder it acted silly when it took off. All I could see was the head.Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
yeah 300meters,deer and .223 dont even go in the same sentence in my vocabulary ..half that and Im happy. 300 meters is .270w territory for me.
Read Mike Bennetts book about Charlie Emerson calmly nailing 3 big red stags at 500 yards with a 222. Dont think those guys lied in their books because such feats were common place. Bennett recounts them mowing down deer at 800 yards with open sighted 303's . Incredible stuff they did with their tools of trade.Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Oh I do not doubt it can be done...and has been done..PERSONALLY I prefer to be much closer and much more certain of a clean kill..the room for error or rather the chance of error is so much larger as the range expands...hold the line caller I shall grab a manual and see just what a trebly looks like at 500 yrds. Im picking subsonic .22LR
ok so directly from Nosler manual...Im going to be generous and say he was using a maximum loaded 55Grn load..not the usual 50 grn loading.
so sighted in dead on at 200yards gives
at 500yards
1554fps so good hornet load better than a subsonic .22lr
0.7 seconds of bullet in flight
bullet will drop 51.6 inches below the Xhair.....51.6 devided by 12=4 and a bit feet of drop. so ASSUMING they were neck shot..thats a LOT of holdover. now Mr Bennet may well have carried a rangefinder and been dialing up.... but Im buggered if I have EVER EVER EVER read of anyone doing so until the last 15 years.
the same goes for .303british at 800 yards with open sights....now the SMLE was better than 4" at 100 yards from new..the good ones were 1.5--2 inches so multiply that 2inches by 8 and thats a 16" group in perfect conditions with rock steady rest on non moving animal.
now on this very forum we have a VERY experienced hunter who shoots a lot of animals on regular basis with .224 and even he doesnt stretch barrel out to 500 yards
the grandpamac Fclass thread asked questions and the answers are right there ON paper not flesh...stretch the range and the wee light .224s suck
to each there own,all Im saying is go in eyes open and for crying out loud follow up EVERY shot...
just for grins n giggles as I have manual still here I will look up 50 grn.
yip at 500yrds its down to 1227fps so .22lr super
and its 89.9" of drop =64.8" below Xhairs
wind drift is gobsmacking..10mph =53.6''